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The lie of the land : challenging received wisdom on the African environment
- Title
- The lie of the land : challenging received wisdom on the African environment / edited by Melissa Leach & Robin Mearns.
- Publication
- Oxford : International African Institute in association with James Curry ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, c1996.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xvi, 240 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- African issues
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-230) and index.
- Contents
- Environmental change & policy / Melissa Leach & Robin Mearns -- Range management science & policy : politics, polemics & pasture in Southern Africa / Ian Scoones -- Soil erosion, animals & pasture over the longer term : environmental destruction in Southern Africa / William Beinart -- Desertification / Jeremy Swift -- Wildlife, pastoralists & science : debates concerning Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania / Daniel Brockington & Katherine Homewood -- Rethinking the forest-savanna mosaic : colonial science & its relics in West Africa / James Fairhead & Melissa Leach -- Dryland forestry : manufacturing forests & farming trees in Nigeria / Reginald Cline-Cole -- Soil erosion / Michael Stocking -- Irrigation, erosion & famine : visions of environmental change in Marakwet, Kenya / W.M. Adams -- Land & capital : blind spots in the study of the "resource-poor" farmer / Mary Tiffen -- The cultural construction of environmental policy : paradigms & politics in Ethiopia / Allan Hoben.
- Call Number
- Sc D 97-408
- ISBN
- 0435074075 (Heinemann cloth)
- 0435074083 (Heinemann pbk.)
- 0852554109 (Curry cloth)
- 0852554095 (Curry pbk.)
- LCCN
- 96049147
- OCLC
- 36011593
- Title
- The lie of the land : challenging received wisdom on the African environment / edited by Melissa Leach & Robin Mearns.
- Imprint
- Oxford : International African Institute in association with James Curry ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, c1996.
- Series
- African issues
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-230) and index.
- Added Author
- Leach, Melissa.Mearns, Robin.International African Institute.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 97-408